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Always Paid In Cash, Bengal Tea Garden Workers Open First Bank Accounts
The cash ban has hit the livelihood of tea garden workers in north Bengal. Their salaries were paid in cash earlier, but after the currency ban, the centre's labour department has insisted that bank accounts be opened for tea garden workers.
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North Bengal Tea Garden Workers Facing Hunger Death Promised Relief
In a move that could mean relief for 25,000 tea workers in north Bengal, the head of the Duncans Group, GP Goenka, met chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday and promised to reopen 14 tea gardens that had become non-functional since April. No time frame has been given, but Duncans will pay all dues and even open public kitchens for workers suffer...
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Hard Winter Ahead for Thousands at West Bengal's Tea Gardens
By January, when activity ceases at the tea gardens in north Bengal, 50-year-old Kunji Lohar will be among the thousands of workers who will have no income to live on.
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In West Bengal's Tea Estate Crisis, a World of Worry For a 21-Year-Old
For 21-year-old Supriyanesh Toppo, a second year engineering student, the price of an impasse at the tea garden in West Bengal's Bagrakote, may be an education.
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At West Bengal Tea Garden, Workers Claim Death By Distress
At least six people have died in north Bengal's Bagrakote tea plantation since October, the government says. But since the tea garden went into limbo in April - not abandoned, not shut down and yet not functioning - many more have died, workers say.
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Always Paid In Cash, Bengal Tea Garden Workers Open First Bank Accounts
The cash ban has hit the livelihood of tea garden workers in north Bengal. Their salaries were paid in cash earlier, but after the currency ban, the centre's labour department has insisted that bank accounts be opened for tea garden workers.
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North Bengal Tea Garden Workers Facing Hunger Death Promised Relief
In a move that could mean relief for 25,000 tea workers in north Bengal, the head of the Duncans Group, GP Goenka, met chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday and promised to reopen 14 tea gardens that had become non-functional since April. No time frame has been given, but Duncans will pay all dues and even open public kitchens for workers suffer...
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Hard Winter Ahead for Thousands at West Bengal's Tea Gardens
By January, when activity ceases at the tea gardens in north Bengal, 50-year-old Kunji Lohar will be among the thousands of workers who will have no income to live on.
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In West Bengal's Tea Estate Crisis, a World of Worry For a 21-Year-Old
For 21-year-old Supriyanesh Toppo, a second year engineering student, the price of an impasse at the tea garden in West Bengal's Bagrakote, may be an education.
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At West Bengal Tea Garden, Workers Claim Death By Distress
At least six people have died in north Bengal's Bagrakote tea plantation since October, the government says. But since the tea garden went into limbo in April - not abandoned, not shut down and yet not functioning - many more have died, workers say.
